Barry had a great 2017, but his 2018 looks even better.
Last year, Keoghan featured in two of our ten favourite movies of 2017, with both Dunkirk and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer making fantastic additions to his CV.
Looking forward to 2018, and things are looking even brighter for the Dublin actor.
We’ve already mentioned Black 47, his Irish action movie set during the famine, and now we’ve got word that another of his films is premiering in Sundance this week, and everybody is already buzzing about it.
American Animals tells the story of Spencer (Keoghan) and Warren (Evan Peters, best known as Quicksilver from the recent X-Men movies), two best friends who are bored of their sheltered lives, and decide to perform a heist, with their targets being priceless prints and rare books from the Transylvania University’s special collections library.
The story was covered in an exceptional expose by Vanity Fair (we fully recommend you giving it a read here), and the movie will be directed by Bart Layton, who is best known for directing one of the best documentaries of the last decade, The Imposter, a film that we really recommend you check out ASAP.
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The interesting part of American Animals will be that while Keoghan and Peters are acting out the fictionalised version of events, Layton will be cutting back to the real thieves and interviewing the real people involved, getting different perspectives on events, depending on how people remember them.
So it’s basically Ocean’s 11 meets Rashomon meets Harold & Kumar, and that is combination that has got us very excited.
The movie has yet to pick up a distributor, which means no set release date, but we imagine that will change pretty quickly once the Sundance screenings have taken place.
In the meantime, check out the newly released poster:
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